by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news stories, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, September 27.
- Carbon bombs and Gulf Stream collapse: the most urgent climate stories of our time
- Landmark battery deal in Victoria another big step towards 100 per cent renewables
- Huge expansion of oil pipelines endangering climate, says report (“More than 24,000km of pipelines planned around world, showing ‘an almost deliberate failure to meet climate goals’” Also, while we’re at it, how about NOT finishing the fracked-gas Mountain Valley Pipeline?!?)
- How China Targets the Global Fish Supply
- The Dollar Is Strong. That Is Good for the U.S. but Bad for the World.
- Mystery leaks hit Russian undersea gas lines, raising European suspicions
- Putin’s call-up fuels Russians’ anger, protests and violence
- Russia’s mobilization drive devolves into chaos
- Russia’s Annexation Moves, Nuclear Threats Raise Stakes in Ukraine
- Putin says nuclear threat is no bluff. We should take him at his word. (“These are horrible scenarios to consider. If you are worried, you are having the appropriate reaction. We should do all we can now to prepare a massive political response that might deter Putin from crossing the nuclear line.”)
- The Russian Clocks Are All Ticking (“Putin is running out of time.”)
- Putin Ally Acknowledges Founding Wagner Mercenary Group
- Putin grants citizenship to Edward Snowden, who disclosed U.S. surveillance
- Ukraine Latest: Zelenskiy Says Situation in Donetsk ‘Most Tense’
- Ukraine crisis will speed energy transition in mid-term, says renewables agency chief
- Putin’s debacle is breaking his country — and he might pay the price
- Putin poised to announce annexation of Ukrainian regions – UK
- Putin’s Mobilization Hits Russia’s Economy in Its Weak Spots
- Vote in Ukraine’s Russia-held areas stokes tension with West
- Women Take Center Stage in Antigovernment Protests Shaking Iran
- Iran Strikes Kurdish Separatist Groups in Northern Iraq
- White House anxiously watches Meloni’s rise to power (There’s very good reason to be anxious.)
- How a party of neo-fascist roots won big in Italy
- Danger lurks after Italy’s shocking election (“The West must exercise its influence to ensure Giorgia Meloni sticks to sanctions against Russia.”)
- The Lesson for America From Italy’s Election
- A Fine Economic Mess in the United Kingdom (“With the pound hitting record lows, financial analysts are questioning the competence of Britain’s new government.”)
- Larry Summers blasts UK tax cuts as ‘utterly irresponsible’ and warns of possible contagion
- Britain has replaced Italy as Europe’s problem economy
- An Israel-Lebanon Border Deal Could Increase Natural Gas Supplies
- China Reins In Its Belt and Road Program, $1 Trillion Later
- Cops on Brazil’s campaign trail call for backup as violence spikes
- Cuba Approves Same-Sex Marriage in Historic Vote
- Hurricane Ian’s forecast shows the impact of a changed climate
- Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Cuba en route to Florida
- There’s No Reason Puerto Rico Had to Go Through This Again (“Locals knew how to fix the infrastructure problems extreme weather revealed, but their hands were tied.”)
- NASA’s DART spacecraft successfully slams into asteroid in historic test of planetary defense
- Amid a massive American clean energy shift, grid operators play catch-up
- CBO estimates Biden’s student debt plan could cost $400 billion over 30 years (That’s like $13 billion a year, which is barely a rounding error in the overall $6 TRILLION U.S. budget.)
- Lawmakers Propose Measure to Avert Government Shutdown This Week (“The stopgap funding package would finance the government through Dec. 16 and set aside a major round of emergency aid to Ukraine. If the legislation passes, it would postpone more difficult spending negotiations until after the midterm elections in November.”)
- Zombie Reaganomics Still Rules the G.O.P.
- Lumber Prices Fall Back to Pre-Covid Levels
- Transmission development key to Inflation Reduction Act’s climate potential: report
- Top State Judges Make a Rare Plea in a Momentous Supreme Court Election Case
- The Supreme Court’s new term could be even more consequential than its last one (“The Republican justices who overruled Roe v. Wade are only getting started.”)
- Why Trump went full QAnon: He’s desperate — and “those are the only people he’s got left” (“Author Mike Rothschild says Trump may be fading, but the QAnon cult is spreading — and could bring ‘mass violence'”)
- DOJ declares seized Mar-a-Lago materials list full and accurate despite Trump’s claims of planted evidence
- House Jan. 6 Panel Faces Key Decisions as It Wraps Up Work
- Meadows was central to hundreds of texts about overturning 2020 election, book says
- Riggleman at center of new Jan. 6 controversy (“The revelation about the committee’s largely-private investigation drew swift pushback from committee members, who are downplaying Riggleman’s knowledge of the panel’s operation and brushing away the significance of the call.”)
- Riggleman: After I criticized Trump, my mom texted me, ‘I’m sorry you were ever elected’ (Yikes)
- Manchin faces make-or-break vote on permitting reform (“The Senate will vote at 5:30 p.m. on a motion to proceed to a House-passed ‘shell’ bill that Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) hopes to use as a legislative vehicle to pass a government funding bill with Manchin’s permitting reform legislation attached.”)
- McConnell works to box out Manchin (“The GOP leader is pushing his members to block the West Virginia senator’s energy permitting bill, the latest loop in their roller-coaster relationship.”)
- McConnell Seeks Revenge on Manchin for Inflation Reduction Act (“Sheer spite, not energy policy, is motivating a Republican effort to kill Manchin’s energy-permitting bill”)
- The only agenda that unifies the Republican Party is revenge
- Those GOP ‘tough on crime’ ads? They’re based on a very big lie. (“Whatever caused the recent increase in crime, it wasn’t police budget cuts. Because that never happened.”)
- Historic trial for Oath Keepers leader and his top lieutenants over January 6 set to begin
- GOP leaders still strive to appease Trump’s base on election denialism
- Hell Is a World in Which Everybody Writes Like Axios (“The site’s ‘brevity’ is dumb and ugly, and, ironically, it slows me down.” It is truly abysmal.)
- ‘Let’s get right to the violence’: New documentary film footage shows Roger Stone pre-Election Day
- ‘Shoot To Kill’: Trump Ally Roger Stone Calls For Violence In Chilling Video
- Jan. 6 committee hearing will use clips from Roger Stone documentary
- Oath Keeper charged in Jan. 6 attack texted with Andrew Giuliani about election
- Cheney fuels talk of independent bid
- Sinema in speech at McConnell Center says 60-vote Senate threshold should be restored (Can’t wait until Sinema’s political career ends in two years.)
- Christo-fascist salutes displayed during recent Mastriano and Trump rallies
- Mastriano’s Sputtering Campaign: No TV Ads, Tiny Crowds, Little Money
- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home to avoid being served with subpoena, court record says
- Why Did This DeSantis Flack Delete All His Anti-OAN Tweets?
- The Making and Remaking (and Remaking) of a MAGA Heir (“For all Ron DeSantis’s bona fides and rocketing national profile, doubts about his own persona persist. Is it any wonder he and Trump are already locked in a 2024 cold war?”)
- Ron DeSantis’s vile stunt outdoes Greg Abbott in trolling cruelty
- DeSantis privately elevates election deniers while publicly staying mum on 2020
- Abbott holds 8-point lead over O’Rourke in Texas governor’s race: poll
- Kristi Noem Under Investigation for Jetting to Personal Events on State Plane
- Brett Favre’s Sirius XM Show Put On Hold After Welfare Fraud Scandal
- Texts: Brett Favre also sought welfare money for football facility
- U. of Idaho may stop providing birth control under new abortion law
- Virginia senator calls NYT investigation troubling: ‘Bon Secours needs to have an answer’
- Video: Sen. Tim Kaine Says “Democracies in the world have to link arms,” Whether the Threats Are “Putin in Ukraine or…Donald Trump embracing QAnon theories and promoting violence” (On Russian threats to use nuclear weapons, Sen. Kaine says “I think it is a big bluff,” but adds, “Putin is dangerous because he has his back against the wall.”)
- Yesli Vega Declines to Debate; Keeps Hiding Extreme Positions from Virginians (Vega clearly “knows her extreme statements will not withstand basic questioning.”)
- Video: New Ad by Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-VA10) Declares, “if there’s one message I have for criminals and sex offenders, it’s don’t mess with a mom” (Rep. Wexton: “I’ve been a prosecutor, a judge, and now a Congresswoman”)
- REMINDER: Virginia GOP’s Extreme, Anti-Choice Agenda – Glenn Youngkin, Jen Kiggans, Yesli Vega, Hung Cao, etc.
- Vega declines debate with Spanberger in Fredericksburg
- Ranked-choice voting might be Virginia’s future (And it should be.)
- ‘This is the law’ | Youngkin tells schools they should comply with new transgender policy (“Model policies” don’t have to be followed, actually. In fact, rightly or wrongly, most school systems don’t follow the ones promulgated by the Northam administration.)
- Virginia Students At Nearly 100 Schools Announce Walkouts In Response To DOE Draft Transgender Policy Guidelines
- Youngkin transgender student policy draws torrent of public comments
- Student walkouts planned in protest of Youngkin transgender policy
- As maternal mortality rates rise in Virginia, health officials launch interviews into deaths
- Hampton Roads students to join statewide walkout protesting Youngkin administration’s new transgender policies
- Public safety is the top issue in 2 Norfolk City Council races
- Surveillance video of March-Williams incident doesn’t show confrontation
- CASEY: The dustup in Wytheville between 2 Trump-loving state lawmakers
- Richmond City Council gives green light for Diamond District project
- Five guns in three years: How Richmond educators think about school safety
- Richmond aims to collect thousands of pounds of food waste with compost pilot
- With scoop by scoop of soil, Alexandria remembers lynched Black teens
- Virginia Tech makes progress improving student food security, but some say more help is needed
- D.C.-area forecast: Awesome fall weather goes on with pleasant days, cool nights (“The remnants of Hurricane Ian could bring rain to the region this weekend.”)
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